Facts You Probably don’t Need
- The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point in Brazil.
- Octopuses and squid have three hearts.
- The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
- The U.S. Army is responsible for the creation of Ray-Ban sunglasses.
- The world population in 1980 was 4,458,003,514. By 1990, it had grown to 5,327,231,061.
- Similar to an apricot, black pepper is technically a stone fruit.
- Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave. It is a nine-foot-tall pyramid in New Orleans.
- There is a Nikola Tesla statue that radiates free Wi-Fi in Silicon Valley.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.